Ten
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...
ships have been named HMS ''Lynx'' after the
wild cat
Felidae () is the family of mammals in the order Carnivora colloquially referred to as cats, and constitutes a clade. A member of this family is also called a felid (). The term "cat" refers both to felids in general and specifically to the do ...
:
* was a 10-gun
sloop
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...
launched in 1761 and sold in 1777.
* was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1777. Converted to a
hospital ship
A hospital ship is a ship designated for primary function as a floating medical treatment facility or hospital. Most are operated by the military forces (mostly navies) of various countries, as they are intended to be used in or near war zones. ...
in 1780, the ship was sold in 1783.
* was a 16-gun sloop launched in 1794 and sold in 1813.
* ''Lynx'' was to have been an 18-gun . Originally ordered in 1812 as HMS ''Pandora'' she was renamed ''Lynx''. However construction was canceled in 1818.
* was a launched in 1833 and broken up in 1845.
* was an wooden screw gunvessel launched in 1854 and sold in 1862.
* was a launched in 1868 and sold in 1888.
* was a launched in 1894 and sold in 1912.
* was an launched in 1913 and sunk by a
mine
Mine, mines, miners or mining may refer to:
Extraction or digging
* Miner, a person engaged in mining or digging
*Mining, extraction of mineral resources from the ground through a mine
Grammar
*Mine, a first-person English possessive pronoun
...
in the
Moray Firth
The Moray Firth (; Scottish Gaelic: ''An Cuan Moireach'', ''Linne Mhoireibh'' or ''Caolas Mhoireibh'') is a roughly triangular inlet (or firth) of the North Sea, north and east of Inverness, which is in the Highland council area of north of Scotl ...
in 1915.
* was a
Type 41 (or ''Leopard''-class) frigate
A frigate () is a type of warship. In different eras, the roles and capabilities of ships classified as frigates have varied somewhat.
The name frigate in the 17th to early 18th centuries was given to any full-rigged ship built for speed and ...
launched in 1955, sold to Bangladesh in 1982 and renamed ''Abu Bakr''.
* was also a
shore establishment
A stone frigate is a naval establishment on land.
"Stone frigate" is an informal term that has its origin in Britain's Royal Navy after its use of Diamond Rock, an island off Martinique, as a 'sloop of war' to harass the First French Empire, ...
at
Dover
Dover () is a town and major ferry port in Kent, South East England. It faces France across the Strait of Dover, the narrowest part of the English Channel at from Cap Gris Nez in France. It lies south-east of Canterbury and east of Maidstone ...
commissioned in 1939 and paid off in 1946.
References
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lynx, Hms
Royal Navy ship names